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Trump’s Crypto Venture Begins Sign-Ups While Business Purpose Remains Unclear

Donald Trump’s World Liberty Financial decentralized finance project has started to sign up users even though it remains unclear what services the crypto platform will offer.

Pyramid schemes are never about any actual product. This scheme just blows by the step where the con artist comes up with some appealing product, going straight to taking money from marks without having to promise any return on investment. What stable genius came up with this brilliant idea? /S

a little girl is sitting at a table with the words `` oy ! '' on her face .

Alt: Little girl gif, facepalm. Meme says "OY!"

UK has shut down its last coal power plant. Since 1882, when London became home to the world's first such plant, those electricity generators have in total produced more planet-warming emissions than each of the world's 150+ countries have on their own. interactive.carbonbrief.org/coal-phaseou...

Q&A: How the UK became the first G7 country to phase out coal power

The UK’s last coal-fired power plant, Ratcliffe-on-Soar in Nottinghamshire, is set to close at the end of this month, marking the end of a 142-year era of burning coal to generate electricity.

Sounds like lots of good American jobs, building high-quality American infrastructure. Hardest part will be triage...figuring out which projects come first and which can wait.

Yeah, mine was the 3D as well.

Yeah, I know, preaching to the choir here on Bluesky. But the article and the graphics (thank you Lee Wind, Brian Kirby and Debbie Ohi) are an easy thing to share with your friends who haven't yet made the switch. scbwi.blogspot.com/2024/07/brea...

"Break Up With Your X" - Can you do it without hurting your #kidlit career? Brian Kirby has receipts (a.k.a., the stats.)

So I spent years growing a following on Twitter (now X). In the beginning it was really cool, and I could connect with so many other #kidli...

My last one was on a new machine. It was a tad more comfortable. Perhaps our breasts getting the "Play-doh" treatment, like the nurse/tech is working with an inanimate lump of modeling clay, helps us (and them?) feel less awkward about all the handling, pulling, squeezing we go through? #mammogram

Oh, the myriad ways text threads can be misunderstood. I laughed so hard! And truly, how many of us have been there, at least on one side or the other? 🖐️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=nale...

Key & Peele - Text Message Confusion - Uncensored

YouTube video by Comedy Central

Oh, the myriad ways text threads can be misunderstood. I laughed so hard! And truly, how many of us have been there, at least on one side or the other? 🖐️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=nale...

Key & Peele - Text Message Confusion - Uncensored

YouTube video by Comedy Central

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